Notices by Brion Vibber :blobcatcoffee:​ (brion@bikeshed.vibber.net)

@Ten the Romans were legionary for their puns

CGA graphics says trans rights

the science-fiction epic about a mysterious alien space station that changes gender based on temperature

Rendezvous with Ranma ½

floating point numbers are represented by floating a tiny transistor inside a tiny liquid tank in your cpu

that's what you shouldn't vigorously shake the computer during intense computation

@evan it's like the opposite of nightmare before christmas, where the musical numbers are great and the interludes are mid ;)

@evan (why's it surprising? we've spent decades trying to get *out* from under the thumb of big ISPs and mobile phone providers, I can't imagine why we'd want to dive back into their waiting EEE arms)

high dynamic rage display

@evan @colo_lee those free accounts are lock-in mechanisms to make it harder to switch ISPs :)

(fedi is _slightly_ better than email in account portability with the migration system, but only slightly. you still have to update any external links, business cards, etc and you lose your entire posting history including DMs)

@evan hell no, mobile phone companies should provide phone/data plans and nothing else

(I deleted some extra screed that wasn't helpful to the discussion. My apologies. :D)

@thomasfuchs in a system that was concentrating on reducing conflict, this wouldn't happen -- because the lack of seeing each others' replies *creates* conflict as multiple people post the same "hot takes" over and over. you'd instead have replies for a post managed by a the server of the person who posted the parent post, so that moderators could actually moderate discussions

none of that's in mastodon, where reply trees are applied via some activitypub reply chain at a separate level

@thomasfuchs i'm also given to understand there are problems with blocked people being able to still post replies on your posts, something that wouldn't happen if replies were managed by your own server instead of just happening out in the ether

@thomasfuchs tbf i don't think anyone deliberately designed the lack of consistency in replies to reduce conflict, i think that one's just lack of thinking the design through.

"I watched MP3-beams glitter off the Fraunhofer Gate..."

return of the jedi, but replace every time palpatine says "as i have forseen it" with "as per my last email"

feeling the urge to refactor this maintenance script so i can unit-test its "business logic"

i feel dirty just for saying the phrase "business logic", even with scare quotes

@evan "place" is difficult :) for instance, maintaining a shared document isn't really something that happens "on" the fediverse, as far as i know no activitypub-capable system has a good shared document editing system.

but a bunch of people who talk a lot over fedi could easily coordinate their discussion around a shared-document editing tool (like a wiki or *shudder* google docs) and i don't think that would be "bad" or anything

@theresnotime evergreen

@theresnotime *pushes "get rich" to the top of the todo list i never make progress on*

@thomasfuchs I will never doubt your commitment to sparkle motion :)